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jakez4ut said:
the sentiment is that there's only 6 or 7 episodes this season (forget which) and it feels like there's A LOT left on the table....with two episodes devoted to setting up the battle at Winterfel.

i get that. that was my initial reaction as well watching.

but why was it excellent? well, we've watched this show for a long time, and this is the first time since season one many of these characters have been together at the same time. so seeing the dynamic now, knowing the history of each....it just adds to the already existing tensions as these folks supposedly unite to fight a common enemy. i liked it a lot. we've waited a long time for some of these people to meet up again, and here we are. i'm glad they did this episode the way they did.

now, would it have been personally satisfying had Bran killed Jamie on the spot? yep........... but it was still cool to see them speak to each other....

anyway....i get why people are miffed. i'm kinda ready for some bad azz battles and some story stopping kills as well.

but i'm glad they gave us these two episodes to see how some characters basically wrap up with one on another.....felt like a good bye episode for several.......which i'm cool with.
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Yeah, we've got roughly 5 hours of show left, as I would imagine the remaining episodes will be a little longer than one hour each. That's actually a lot of time to wrap up the plot completely. It can't all be battles and action or else the audience would get fatigued. GoT has always been about characters above all else, and last night's episode felt like a Season 1 episode to me with the relaxed pacing.
 
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UT = Checkmate said:
Very well said and I felt the exact same way. I thought this a goodbye episode for the characters and the dialog was very well written. The whole fireside chat was great and to be honest all of them might die next week.
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I told my wife that I actually wouldn't be shocked if the writers went full red herring with that scene and the people in that room will be the only ones to survive.
 
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Aesius said:
Yeah, we've got roughly 5 hours of show left, as I would imagine the remaining episodes will be a little longer than one hour each. That's actually a lot of time to wrap up the plot completely. It can't all be battles and action or else the audience would get fatigued. GoT has always been about characters above all else, and last night's episode felt like a Season 1 episode to me with the relaxed pacing.
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yeah, i'm not too worried about it. i will be surprised if i'm not happy about how this all ends.....i expect the next two episodes to be really good.
 
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drvenner said:
Trying my best to scroll past all of these GoT spoilers. @utvols88 is the only one who cares about me.

Please use the spoiler tags (spoiler) GoT stuff (/spoiler). Use the [ instead of ( for it to work.

If you don't use it, we are going to have to meet at a local waffle house
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Sorry bro, I wasnt even thinking about it :(
 
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ChismsHeadband said:
I don't mean to sound like such a downer, I'm just trying to keep expectations in line.

I mean, last fall, we were getting giddy about VFL's tweeting that we could win 8. Then the 1st play of WVU brought us back to earth.

Even without Trey, I do think we improve. I just think it'll only be enough to get us to 6 or 7 wins, nothing beyond that. :/
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I actually agree with this. My previous post was more pointing out how much of a downer it is that arguably the best recruit we’ve gotten in the past 3-4 years is sidelined because of factors that are totally out of anybody’s control.
 
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I just want to take a minute and talk about Reggie Cobb. I started at UT in 1983 and was still around when he was signed in the late 80's. I had a lot of interest in him because he was a local kid from close to my neck of the woods. I went to Fulton and he went to Central. I will always remember his long run in the rain against Auburn in 1989, We were coming off that horrible 1988 season and had started off great. It was pouring rain that day but when he housed it against that tough Auburn defense, it was pandemonium. I remember dancing in the aisles with my friends because it was such a huge play in a huge game. You can see the run here, if you are interested:



I am very saddened to hear of his passing. He was a truel VFL. RIP.
 
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drvenner said:
I just want to take a minute and talk about Reggie Cobb. I started at UT in 1983 and was still around when he was signed in the late 80's. I had a lot of interest in him because he was a local kid from close to my neck of the woods. I went to Fulton and he went to Central. I will always remember his long run in the rain against Auburn in 1989, We were coming off that horrible 1988 season and had started off great. It was pouring rain that day but when he housed it against that tough Auburn defense, it was pandemonium. I remember dancing in the aisles with my friends because it was such a huge play in a huge game. You can see the run here, if you are interested:



I am very saddened to hear of his passing. He was a truel VFL. RIP.
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i remember that game.....we were on a camping trip, and i was watching it with my brother and a friend on one of those old portable TV's with a 2" screen....lol.
 
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jakez4ut said:
agree, and is that a direct correlation to OL issues already identified or a reaction to what JG brings to the table in terms of seeing the field pre and post snap? they'll get those deep ball misses on tape. they'll use that, and at some point in time, JG will have to be able to get thru a progression, and not be a 1 read guy.....or teh OL is going to have to get to the point where they give him that extra 1/2 second or 2....

have to be more than an underneath passing game, and that won't happen if we're just flat missing on guys running free behind defenders.

not an indictment on anyone here, just an observation.
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Rewatching with pause and slo mo is painful lol. Plenty of blame to go around in the last few plays.

1st play - JG has no pressure and throws medium distance to the outside. Throw is 2yds behind the receiver and 2.5yds out of bounds.

2nd play - 3 short range receivers. 1 is probably too risky, 1 is low risk, 3rd is open, about 2.9 seconds protection... we take a sack.

3rd play - center is free (no rush available to assist if necessary) right tackle and ONLY the right tackle, pulls left, helps guard double team unnecessarily and leaves his defender a straight shot to JG?
That bad of miscommunication? Can't be designed that way can it?
Maybe I should put down the remote haha.
 
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chargervol said:
Rewatching with pause and slo mo is painful lol. Plenty of blame to go around in the last few plays.

1st play - JG has no pressure and throws medium distance to the outside. Throw is 2yds behind the receiver and 2.5yds out of bounds.

2nd play - 3 short range receivers. 1 is probably too risky, 1 is low risk, 3rd is open, about 2.9 seconds protection... we take a sack.

3rd play - center is free (no rush available to assist if necessary) right tackle and ONLY the right tackle, pulls left, helps guard double team unnecessarily and leaves his defender a straight shot to JG?
That bad of miscommunication? Can't be designed that way can it?
Maybe I should put down the remote haha.
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lol, yeah. i would. the film eval would be more meaningful knowing what the play was before.......lol.

but i see where you're going with it, and i think we probably agree, it's a little bit of everything....one play it's this, the next it's that....and so on it goes, and it yielded bad to mediocre results.

siap, but whether it's the WR, OL, RB, TE, or the QB, they all need to get better......none of them are w/out fault when it comes to the passing game woes. but it starts with OL and QB.....
 
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jakez4ut said:
i remember that game.....we were on a camping trip, and i was watching it with my brother and a friend on one of those old portable TV's with a 2" screen....lol.
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If you watch the video, later, when they show the replay, you get to see Charles McRae (I think) absolutely destroy the MLB to help clear the way.
 
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It's rare to find 1...and now here I see we have 3...THREE people collectively "together" that have not watched Game of Thrones :eek::eek::eek:
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Good for you...I loved it. Your opinion of GoT means about as much to me as your opinions concerning the Vols...absolutely nothing.
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What was good about it? Lol. The whole season last was terrible too. White walkers can’t swim or cross water but they can scuba dive down and hook up a chain to a dragon? Also how the hell did Jamie and brahn make it back to Kings Landing after almost getting burned? Just swim back
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
It's rare to find 1...and now here I see we have 3...THREE people collectively "together" that have not watched Game of Thrones :eek::eek::eek:
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Saw 2 different 3 minute segments (reruns) during last week's HBO preview.
1st snippet- Some little guy talking about all the women he had schtupped.

2nd snippet about 3 hrs later - same little guy, talking about 1 girl in particular that he had schtupped.
 
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